Prof. Dr. Carlos E. Palau is Full Professor in the ETSI Telecomunicacion at UPV. With more than 25 years of experience in research in the areas of security, privacy, content distribution, networking, interoperability, IoT, Smart-Cities and wireless communications. Nowadays, he is coordinating H2020 ICT-56 ASSIST-IoT and participating in other R&D projects, such as H2020 ICT-13-2019 DATAPORTS (as co-Technical Coordinator), H2020 ICT-17 5GENESIS, among others. Furthermore, it is worth remarking his coordination of the finished H2020 MG-7-3 PIXEL and H20202 ICT-30-2015 INTER-IoT projects. He is also an IEEE Senior Member with more than 135 published papers. He has participated in several TPC of relevant conferences like IEEE LCN, IEEE MILCOM; IEEE MULTIMEDIA and chaired from 2002 till 2008 the International Conference of Communications Systems and Networks.